PSC 41 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Modus Ponens, Deductive Reasoning, Falsifiability
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Critiquing claims about relationships between variables & steps in critical thinking. Critiquing claims of relationships between two variables. Critique (assess claims and make judgements on the basis of well supported evidence: access the accuracy (validity) of a claim. Articulate if a claim is unsupported: demand appropriate additional information. To be critical of something is to appreciate the strengths of the claim and articulate the weaknesses (if i had more evidence, then i would be convinced) People who eat champion cereal for breakfast will be more successful than people who eat great gruel for breakfast. Claim: predictor variable cereal choice causes outcome variable success. There"s a relationship, but there"s no cause yet. The authors are claiming that a predictor variable leads to an outcome variable. You must accept that the findings are true (must accept that there is a relationship, can"t dismiss the findings as false)
